Pavel Durov sat down with us - t.me ?

Pavel Durov sat down with us - t.me ?
3,652,068 views 04/17/2024 #TuckerCarlson #CIA #ElonMusk
The social media app Telegram has over 900 million users around the world. Its founder Pavel Durov met with us in his office in Dubai for a rare interview.
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John Scott-Railton
@jsrailton
BREAKING: #Telegram CEO Pavel Durov arrested by French authorities.

Early official comments to French media suggest this follows from France's displeasure with Telegram's moderation & compliance with official requests(?).

If so, I'm pretty sure this is an unprecedented action by a government against a large platform's CEO.

Arrests of employees of big platforms over moderation & access are rare.

For example, folks may recall a 2016 case where Brazil arrested a VP at Facebook for refusing to provide Brazilian police with access to WhatsApp.

That said, it seems to me that threats to arrest platforms' staff over moderation & official cooperation fights are increasing, especially from governments in some big markets.

TF1 (machine trans FR)
https://tf1info.fr/justice-faits-divers/info-tf1-lci-le-fondateur-et-pdg-de-la-messagerie-cryptee-telegram-interpelle-en-france-2316072.html
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"Dunkelheit bricht herein": Tucker Carlson zu Berichten über Durows Verhaftung
"Darkness Falls": Tucker Carlson on reports of Durov's arrest
RT blocking on Telegram

But it would be wrong to see Pavel Durov as a selfless advocate of freedom on the Internet or a fighter for freedom of expression. RT boss Margarita Simonyan pointed this out in her short commentary.

"He has partially cooperated with Western intelligence agencies – at least he has strictly adhered to the instruction to block RT in the countries that have imposed sanctions on Russia," she wrote on her Telegram channel, however:

"It didn't help him."

Not only are all RT channels blocked on Telegram in the EU, the United States, Japan and Australia, but also various Sputnik channels. This significantly restricts the exchange of information and is a serious censorship measure that affects millions of Internet users worldwide. When Pavel Durov spoke to US journalist Tucker Carlson about his alleged intransigence in the fight for freedom of expression, he did not mention the blocking of RT and Sputnik at all. Carlson also refrained from confronting Durov about this...